Contents

pp v-vii

List of figures

pp viii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xviii

Acknowledgments

pp xix-xxii

PART I - MAPPINGS AND CHRONOLOGIES

pp 1-2

1 - Critical Mapping I: The Category of the “Woman Poet” – An Introduction, by Way of Mapping

pp 3-25

2 - Critical Mapping II: Reading American Poetry by Women

pp 26-40

3 - Chronology I: American Women Poets, 1900–1950

pp 41-55

4 - Chronology II: American Women Poets, 1950–2000

pp 56-72

PART II - ETHNICITY, RACE, AND IDENTITY

pp 73-74

5 - Native American Women Poets

pp 75-89

6 - Asian American Women Poets

pp 90-105

7 - Chicana/Latina Women Poets

pp 106-122

8 - African American Women Poets

pp 123-137

9 - Jewish American Women Poets

pp 138-152

PART III - MATERIAL FORMATIONS

pp 153-154

10 - The World Split Open: Feminism, Poetry, and Social Critique

pp 155-169

11 - Little Magazines and the Gendered, Racialized Discourse of Women's Poetry

pp 170-185

12 - The WP Network: Anthologies and Affiliations in Contemporary American Women's Poetry

pp 186-201

13 - High, Low, and Somewhere In-Between: Women's Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America

pp 202-221

14 - “At the Edge of What We Know”: Gender and Environment in American Poetry

pp 222-238

PART IV - LINEAGES, TIES, AND CONNECTIONS

pp 239-240

15 - Token Women, Male Movements, and Literary History's Feminist Shadow

pp 241-257

16 - Lineages and Legacies: Real and Imagined

pp 258-273

17 - Crossing Geographies, Crossing Languages

pp 274-288

18 - Women's “spiritualities”

pp 289-304

PART V - FORM, LANGUAGE, AND TEXT

pp 305-306

19 - Forgiving the Sonnet: Modernist Women's Love Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality

pp 307-322